A Historic Event: A Palestinian Woman Fighter Addresses a Men's Mourning Council

by Dr. Abdul-Sattar Kassem

Perhaps for the first time in the modern era, an Arab Muslim woman stood at the podium to deliver remarks at a men’s mourning council:

The woman was the mujahida Ataf Olayan (Umm Hamdi), companion on the path of jihad of the late sheikh

Abdul-Sattar Kassem

29/April/2013

Source: Translated from the original Arabic, “حدث تاريخي: مجاهدة فلسطينية تخاطب مجلس عزاء الرجال” by Dr. Abdul-Sattar Kassem.